> > Don't you have the changeDBAPassword.sh script in 'bin'

directory

> of
> > your Firebird installation?
> >
>
> No, that's not installed by the Gentoo ebuild. Possibly that would
> have helped: the real problem was that I overlooked the
> file /etc/conf.d/firebird which contains the password. Changing

the

> password only in the security database and not in this file led to
> firebird not starting. Then I thought a text file with the SYSDBA
> password, even if belonging to firebird, might be a big security
> hole, but I see another answer in this thread which says no.

That's

> not really so very important for me anyway, all my databases are
> local.

Certainly, it WAS a security hole. In FB2.0 SYSDBA's password is not
needed anymore in startup script. One need not use fbmgr to shutdown
firebird anymore - "kill $PID" works fine, since 2.0 it gracefully
shuts firebird down. If you do not need multiple instances, you may
simply do "killall fbserver". But what I can see in gentoo startup
is sooner startup script for FB1.X, not 2.0.

I've told about it to gentoo guy, supporting FB ebuild, but not sure
is it already fixed or not.